Physicists in Canada and Germany have invented new a way of changing the direction of electron spins by bouncing them along a tiny semiconductor channel. Unlike other schemes for spin flipping in a ...

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Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...

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For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged ...